One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks

Re:One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks by webmobdev on Sunday May 23, 2021 @05:28PM (#27258745)

    My problem is I can only get the chips and schematics I need to effect the repair on the Chinese Internet

Exactly. And we need legislation to make it happen. In India, I remember someone started a multi-brand service centre for cars. The automobile industry ganged up on him and refused to supply original parts to him. He had to go to the courts, and the courts ruled for him and in favour of consumer rights and made it very clear that the automobile industry had to supply parts to any mechanic shop that asked for it.

We now need a similar legislation for every other industry too.

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Re:One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks by schoolornot on Sunday May 23, 2021 @07:24PM (#27259560)

Would hope such legislation articulates exactly what parts of a "phone" would need to be made available. There are hundreds of parts in an iPhone. It's unreasonable to expect that Apple or any vendor have the resources to make sure every single part, large and small, is available to 3rd party repair shops.

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Re:One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks by hnick on Sunday May 23, 2021 @07:56PM (#27259745)

It is not about making them available. It is about not not making them available. Right now if you email a factory that has the parts they will say they are not allowed to sell them to you for any price even if they have them because Apple/etc said so. It is about removing that gag.

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